Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > I am trying to understand why...
> > > For an 880k floppy the space problem makes impossible to do it.
> > > But i wish to be contraddicted... :))
> >
> > Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it in ram: before launching
> > it. Or we could try for a less than 880Ko modular kernel, but i have not big
> > hopes on this one.
>
> I am experimenting, and it looks promising. I basically moved everything
> except video and disk drivers to modules and here's what it gives so far:
>
> michdaen@pismo> gzip -cv9 vmlinux > vmapus.gz ~/src/apus-cvs/2.4
> vmlinux: 60.1%
> michdaen@pismo> ll vmapus.gz ~/src/apus-cvs/2.4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 michdaen src 888321 May 16 19:49 vmapus.gz
> michdaen@pismo> du -k vmapus.gz ~/src/apus-cvs/2.4
> 868 vmapus.gz
>
> Is this small enough? I guess I could squeeze out a few more K...
Probably not yet.
> Do we need support for foreign partition maps?
Not for installation.
> Do the fbcon packed pixels modules work?
Yes, but only for modular drivers.
I'd say include fbcon-afb (amifb), fbcon-cfb8 (gfx cards) and fbcon-cfb16
(gfx cards with amiboot -v).
You don't need fbcon-ilbm since amifb doesn't need it unless you use
video=amifb:ilbm.
You don't need fbcon-mfb since amifb will fallback to fbcon-afb/fbcon-ilbm for
depth 1 when fbcon-mfb is not available.
You don't need fbcon-cfb24 and fbcon-cf32 since no one wants to run an install
console in those depths anyway. I don't think you need it for half-supported
gfx cards with amiboot -v, only depth 16.
> Do we need Minix fs support yet?
Not for installation.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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